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Iskashitaa Refugee Network
Iskashitaa Refugee Network (previously known as the Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network) is a grass roots organization based in Tucson, Arizona that partners with volunteers and local organizations to provide various supplemental services to refugees to complement those offered by resettlement agencies. The organization was founded by Dr. Barbara Eiswerth, who holds a Ph.D. in Arid Lands Resource Management, and is currently directed by Eiswerth and Development Director Natalie S. Brown.
Iskashitaa has a number of unique programs designed to empower refugees and unite them with staff and volunteers from the community.〔 A primary component of these programs is gleaning, or harvesting unwanted produce from property owners and commercial farmers in order to feed residents of Tucson who are food insecure. Primary among these programs is the gleaning program, through which volunteers harvest unwanted produce from property owners and commercial farmers in order to supply food to residents of Tucson who are food insecure. Over Iskashitaa’s ten years of existence, gleaning efforts have grown from harvesting a few thousand pounds of fruit each year to over 100,000 pounds annually of fruit, nuts, and vegetables: a cumulative one million servings of local produce.
== Meaning of Iskashitaa ==
Iskashitaa means “working cooperatively together” in the language of the Somali Bantu people, called Maay Maay. The spelling of Iskashitaa was chosen by Eiswerth, as there was no written representation of the Maay Maay language at the time of Iskashitaa’s inception.〔 In its early years, the name of the organization was spelled with an asterisk, as Iskash
*taa.
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